Ryan Lochte Quotes

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

I want to get to know a woman before I take them out on a date or anything like that.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

For those who are understood no need to explain

No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

I've talked in front of ... like ... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

I love swimming because racing.

My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend - big mistake. Now I'm single, so London should be really good. I'm excited.

The key to the Lochte haircut is being fresh and looking up-to-date.

I hate to lose. I like winning.

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

Alec Baldwin is so funny.

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Of course I have bad hair days; I'm human.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

I took my weight training to a new level.

If someone asked me to be in a movie, I'd be more than happy.

If you're a man at night, you've got to be a man in the morning.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.

I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

The whole Kardashian family, they have a bunch of energy.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.